silver spoon
Example Sentences
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Tice, who attended the £16,000 per-term Uppingham School, agreed that he was born "with a silver spoon in his mouth".
From BBC • May 16, 2025
"Some red squirrels have the luck of being born into gentler early environments, akin to being born with a silver spoon," Petrullo said.
From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2024
The gilded silver spoon escaped the Parliamentary melting pot because a man who’d once worked for the king bought it for 16 shillings.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2023
A warm, chatty only child, she wasn't born with a silver spoon — she'd worked since she was three, she proudly proclaimed.
From Salon • Jul. 19, 2022
He adds milk, stirs it noisily, rests the small silver spoon on the rim of his saucer, and takes a long slurp.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
